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Data Explorer: add tooltip with column index
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area: data explorer
enhancement
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Description
Originally posted by @stefanofioree in https://github.com/posit-dev/positron/discussions/9669:
It’d be great if you could just hover over a column and see its index kinda like in Rstudio, but with some extra useful info maybe idk. Such a small thing, but a big time-saver.
Rstudio
Positron
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Research direction
Start in the Data Explorer column-header UI and compare the requested hover behavior with the RStudio example shown in the issue. Add a tooltip that displays each column's index, and verify that hovering over columns consistently shows the index.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100